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Chaos invaded downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, May 30 at night, with scattered looting, several buildings on fire and fireworks lighting up the sky over Broadway and other parts of the city during the fourth day of protests demanding justice for George Floyd, despite the fact that the curfew took effect at 8 pm and the mayor Eric Garcetti assured that the National Guard was on the way.
“The National Guard will arrive overnight,” Garcetti announced on Twitter shortly before 8pm. The Governor Gavin Newsom also declared a state of emergency for Los Angeles County on Saturday night.
The Guard’s mission will be “to support our local response to maintain peace and security on the streets of our city,” he said on Twitter.
The California National Guard is being deployed to Los Angeles overnight to support our local response to maintain peace and safety on the streets of our city.
– MayorOfLA (@MayorOfLA) May 31, 2020
The city center I had been silent most of Saturday, with about 60 people peacefully gathered in front of the police station there, a day after the protests turned violent, marked by vandalism, looting and more than 500 arrests.
But the calm came with an omen: when the protesters left on Saturday afternoon, some they warned that they would return later in the evening.
And so they have.
Protesters stopped traffic, tried to occupy freeways and they clashed with the police early in the evening.
As the downtown crowd grew around 6 p.m., protesters made their way to highway 101. Multiple police vehicles made their way slowly through the crowd, reaching the ramp first.
A person broke the window of a police vehicle with a skateboard.
Police with riot gear also fired rubber bullets at protesters on Fourth and Hill Streets, and at other points during the march.
Here’s what they’re shooting at protesters. The blue part feels like a very firm Nerf dart. pic.twitter.com/HnuVkoyaZm
— Bradley Bermont (@bradleybermont) May 31, 2020
Saturday marked the fourth consecutive day of marches in downtown Los Angeles after the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man who died while a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck.
Cell phone images captured the deadly encounter when Floyd was heard pleading: I can’t breathe until he passed out.
The demonstrations in Los Angeles reached a boiling point on Friday at night when the police and protesters clashed. Although many protesters advocated for justice with chants and signs, others threw glass bottles, launched fireworks, set fire to trash cans out of town and smashed windows, causing looting in some stores.
That led Garcetti on Saturday afternoon to declare the curfew for the entire city of Los Angeles from 8 pm Saturday to 5:30 am Sunday. The curfew had originally covered only the downtown area, but then spread to the entire city.
“We have seen those shadows in the past; don’t bring them back, “Garcetti said, referring to the Los Angeles riots in 1992 that followed after the acquittal of four LAPD officers accused of excessive force and assault in the arrest of Rodney King. “We will use the law to restore their freedom, to save lives, but we can’t do it when people are starting fires, shooting our officers, firing projectiles and scaling things. “
Despite Garcetti’s attempt to calm things down, the center became a hot spot of chaos hours later.
Several people threw parking signs, cones, and scooters along the way on Sixth and Flower streets in an attempt to cut off traffic.
After several hours of police meetings with protesters bombing rubber bullets, the crowds had dwindled from hundreds to dozens.
Those who remained during the curfew they confronted the police and painted anti-police spray messages throughout buildings.
Large fire niw burning on Melrose ave in #THE. #GeorgeFloydProtests pic.twitter.com/lBAvJBpZEe
— David Crane (@vidcrane) May 31, 2020
Saturday got worse when the sun went down, with looting on Broadway and other streets.
Around 9:30 pm, a great fire was burning on Melrose Avenue.
The building, on the block 7600 West Melrose Avenue and believed to be a shoe / clothing store, it was now engulfed in flames. Firefighters were fighting the fire.
There was also multiple fires in trash cans throughout the center.
Looters and vandals also broke into luxury shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and in department stores and retailers in the Grove shopping center and in the area of Fairfax district of the Angels.
There were also multiple trash can fires throughout the center.
Information in English:
Downtown LA businesses vandalized, looted as Garcetti announces National Guard on its way
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